Devious Journal Entry

Nerds by ~Exploding-Zombies on deviantART

Actually, nowadays nerds are either neckbeards or straight-A students. You never see people running around with pocket protectors any more.

Edit: Lots of people seem to have misunderstood what I'm trying to say with this comic. I'm not saying nerds can't be attractive. There are plenty of attractive nerds out there, however the people in the bottom picture are just regular scene/hipster/whateveristrendyrightnow kids who aren't nerds at all. They just like wearing thick rimmed classes because they want to be unique snowflakes.

I was a nerd before it was all cool. Still am, to a certain extent.

And I wear my now-battered black glasses because a)they go with everything, and b)I think I look good in them.

I do find it ironic that people accusing others of doing X just to be hipsters has itself become a meme. I mean in the same sense language is a meme, not the way lolcats are a meme. I appreciate X properly, thinks the threatened nerd, not ironically like they're doing.

Dream:

The Law and Order crew were intervening in unrest at my old high school, with Cyrus Lupo, Connie Rubirosa as a cop, and SWAT teams.

I was in it, and was getting harassed by one of those actors who's in everything playing secondary characters. He was the head of the SWAT teams.

He said to his guys that the people you have to watch out for aren't the Michael Westens (Burn Notice), but the The people who are Westen to Westen. Via dream logic, I understood that to mean if Mike's fanboys had their own fanboys. Think the Cutie Mark Crusaders from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, now imagine they had their own sidekicks. Or imagine these guys had their own imposters.

Heck, I doubt BN's Sugar could lead a Sunday School group through Disneyland. Just imagine what would happen if he started fooling around with automatic weapons. Imagine the narration.

"Look, when you're making an elaborate sting to take down a drug dealer, you need stealth, cunning, and something he wants. He wants drugs. We can use the drugs to get him into, like, a vulnerable position, and BAM! Leave him for the cops."
"Sugar, that's kinda vague."
"So we'll improvise. It always works for Mike!"
"But he's a guy who used to be a spy."
"Look, I know we're not as good as him, but how hard could it be?"
"Are you trying to get us killed?"

Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew

What you know about dinner?

Ingredients

• Chopped up potatoes


• Chopped up pork

1. Find frying pan.
   
2. Dump in ingredients.
   
3. Dump in water. Or wine. Or cooking sherry. Or Jack Daniels, whatever. As long as you can use it as a cooking medium. Even Coca-Cola might do, si vous préférez.
   
4. Add spices, veg, and sauces to taste. I used Chicken OXO (which comes in squeezy bottles now!), and light mayo.
   
5. Cook, stirring occasionally. The
   
6. Allow to cook until both pork and potatoes are done, and sauce is reduced to taste.
   
7. Dump in plate, bowl, or eat out of pan.
   
8. Add sauces and spices to taste.
   
9. Dig in.

I like how versatile it is. It's like the Swiss Army Knife of cheap bachelor food. That is, bachelor food.